feat(server): allow disabling serve-static middleware entirely

[danielroe]

Types of changes

• New feature (a non-breaking change which adds functionality)

Description

Allows explicitly disabling serve-static middleware by setting render.static to false.

closes #9362

Checklist:

• My change requires a change to the documentation.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly. (PR: #)
• I have added tests to cover my changes (if not applicable, please state why)
• All new and existing tests are passing.

[clarkdo]

Nice, it would be nice to update doc https://nuxtjs.org/docs/2.x/configuration-glossary/configuration-render#static as well.

[antoinerey]

Should we also disable the second serve-static middleware instance defined a bit later in the code (https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt.js/pull/9365/files#diff-b8c2d26ed3fd075596a838c69b36c537536ae6973cafffdbf481fec464c9b6cfR104-R110)?

[pi0]

LGTM

[pi0]

@antoinerey Ideally users shouldn't hit /_nuxt/ requests and reverse proxy should cache/handle them.

[Matausi29]

Not bad

[pi0]

TODO:

• Docs
• Types for false value: https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt.js/blob/9a32fa18afeda72244c50e6a916fa2bc3e9c7ca1/packages/types/config/render.d.ts#L75

[antoinerey]

👋 By any chance, any update about when this will be released?

[pi0]

Hi @antoinerey there is no specific time but you can use nuxt-edge package to get the feature

[antoinerey]

Thanks for the prompt answer!

I'm not sure we want to move from the stable channel to the edge one, so we'll probably work on our patience skill. 😁